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"After
all, tomorrow is another day."
The following books will introduce you to Scarlett O'Hara, who
said these words in Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind.
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- Mitchell, Margaret. Gone
With the Wind. Warner Books, 1994.
- More and more, this work is recognized as an
American epic of sorts, despite its limitations.
No one can deny that Scarlett is one of the most
vivid (and exasperating) female characters ever
created.
- Taylor, Helen. Scarlett's
Women: Gone With the Wind and Its Female Fans.
Rutgers University Press, 1989.
- Taylor surveyed hundreds of women who 'fessed up
to their love-hate relationship with Scarlett,
and explained her hold on their lives. What
results are fascinating insights into this
character from the readers who know her best.
- Pyron, Darden Asbury (Ed.). Recasting:
Gone With the Wind in American Culture. University
Presses of Florida, 1983.
- Interesting essays, especially James Michener's
"The Company of Giants," which compares
Scarlett to Becky Sharp (of Thackeray's Vanity
Fair), Madame Bovary, and Anna Karenina.
- Harwell, Richard (Ed.). Gone
With the Wind as Book and Film. University of South
Carolina Press, 1983.
- More essays, covering the famous "search for
Scarlett" that led to the casting of Vivien
Leigh, and comparing the book to another
Depression Era novel and film (The Grapes of
Wrath) and another war epic (War and
Peace).
- Ripley, Alexandra. Scarlett:
The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind.
Warner, 1992.
- Ripley's audacious sequel follows Scarlett to
Ireland where she seeks the roots of Tara (and,
not surprisingly, encounters Rhett again).
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